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Published:16:28Monday 21 December 2015

Time-honoured tradition dictates that this Christmas morning thousands of wide eyed children will bolt out of bedrooms and shoot down the stairs to see what the ‘Big Man’ dropped off.

Carefully-wrapped presents will be torn asunder to reveal everything from Nintendo DS and PS4 consoles and games, to sought-after toys such as Disney Descendants, Pieface game, BB8 from Star Wars and Paw Patrol.

Remember this?

Until then, we thought we’d go on a bit of a time warp.

After dusting down our checked jeans and slip-ons, crimping our hair, and donning the ear muffs and leg warmers, we have headed up to raid out the attic with the sole purpose of bringing you some of the toys which topped wish lists for Santa during that decade.

The 1980’s may now be seen as the decade taste forgot but at the time we thought we were the bees knees in our new best clothes as we took to the streets on Christmas morning to proudly display our snazzy new bikes, yoyo skills, dolls and prams and go-karts.

And back then, if disaster struck and Santa failed to bring you a single thing you had been dreaming of, you could always vent your frustration via a game of conkers (dipped in vinegar to harden them of course) or by tuning out to your T’Pau cassette.